This communication aims to reflect on gender dissonances perceived doing fieldwork with Saharans people (Tuareg, Chaaba, Berabish) through a comparison between two different fieldwork experiences. The first one was my Saharan fieldwork, conducted in remote villages and nomadic camps in Northern Mali, Niger and Southern Algeria where I was « going anthropologist » and « going native » as the only western woman living with local people. I have learned how to act as a respectable woman conforming to gendered expectations and strictly gendered spatial practices. The second fieldwork experience was conducted in Europe and particularly in the laic France, where I followed Tuareg refugees during conflicts in Niger and Mali. My role of western woman « gone Tuareg » and veiled, downcasting eyes in the presence of men in public, became problematic because I had to integrate myself the local society and the professional context and because the Saharan diaspora was trying itself to imitate Western lifestyle and worldview, "going French", and « going native » in order to avoid exclusion and marginalization.